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CBC digital expansion ahead of schedule

CBC/Radio-Canada has achieved its goal of doubling its digital reach more than two years early, the public broadcaster said in a press release Monday.

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CRTC revokes Bloomberg TV Canada licence

The CRTC granted a request by Bloomberg TV Canada to revoke its broadcasting licence Friday.

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Shaw launches security video service for smaller businesses

Shaw Communications Inc. is now offering a video surveillance service aimed at small and medium businesses, the company said in a press release Monday.

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Bell, Corus offer 1% raise in baseline spending on PNI

BCE Inc. and Corus Entertainment Inc. are recommending the CRTC revise the minimum standard for spending for programs of national interest (PNI) and boost it to six per cent of the previous year’s revenues, which they say will translate into a windfall of millions of dollars to Canadian content producers.

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Edward, Melinda Rogers to head company board of directors

Melinda and Edward Rogers (photos via Rogers).

Rogers Communications Inc. announced that Edward and Melinda Rogers, the son and daughter of company founder Ted Rogers, will be taking over the chair and deputy chair roles respectively at the company, in a release on Thursday.

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SCC text message ruling clarifies privacy in digital communications

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada said Friday that a sender of a text message can expect that communication to be private, even when it’s on the recipient’s device, highlighting a broadening perspective of privacy in digital communications — if only for certain cases.

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Shaw backs website blocking for pirated content in CRTC consultation

Shaw Communications Inc. used the CRTC’s Creative Canada consultation this week to back website blocking as a strategy to fight privacy.

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Smartphone unlocking shouldn’t be limited to current customers: PIAC

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) is urging the CRTC to mandate service providers to unlock devices even if the customer doesn’t have an active account with the provider, in a Part 1 application submitted on Wednesday.

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CSE activities under C-59 may weaken encryption tools: CCLA

OTTAWA — Parliamentarians debating Bill C-59 will have to come to grips with whether the Communications Security Establishment’s (CSE) new mandate under the proposed national security legislation could threaten communications tools, such as encryption, that secure data from prying state eyes.

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Under C-59, unauthorized data collection still a risk: professor

OTTAWA — On Tuesday morning, University of Ottawa law professor Craig Forcese told the House of Commons committee on public safety and national security that the way new intelligence Bill C-59 is written leaves some Canadians’ constitutionally-protected data open to collection without independent judicial authorization.

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